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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Remit, Terms of Reference and Priorities: Commission on Taxation and Welfare (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask a specific question on that because I am interested in it? Will the commission be considering wealth taxes specifically?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [54392/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United Nations in New York. [48308/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The United Nations conference at Rio de Janeiro, among other things, developed a set of principles known as the forest principles, which relate to how important forestry is in combating climate change and biodiversity destruction. The Taoiseach and others attended the UN-convened COP26 and the Taoiseach was at an environmental session in New York where he discussed the issue of climate....

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach looked into the matter? Does he believe there needs to be a role for greater oversight of the sale of public forest land by the State forestry company?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider providing relief to low- and middle-income households struggling with the cost of energy through an exemption of VAT from domestic energy supplies or a rebate of VAT on domestic energy supplies in the winter months; and if he has discussed or will discuss these matters with the European Commission. [54745/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: During the past decade, corporate profits here have gone through the roof. I estimate there has been an increase of approximately 127% in corporate profits. Last year, net household wealth increased by €89 billion to a record €883 billion and more than 50% of that is in the hands of the richest 10% of the population. In the interests of justice, fairness and equity and to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has just confirmed correctly, although he said it has reduced slightly, that the richest 10% of our population owns more than 50% of all the wealth in a study to which he referred. People need to understand how much that is. Net household wealth, according to the Central Bank report, is €883 billion. That means the richest 10% have €440 billion in personal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not in favour of taxing the family home in our wealth tax proposal. We are very explicit. We are in favour of taxing the wealth in excess of €1 million in the hands of a small group of people. I will put it another way to the Minister. We have approximately 2 million workers, and the Minister can confirm the numbers. Last year, between them they earned €130 billion...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that the new 15% minimum global corporate tax rate will be an effective rate given the many reliefs, deductions and allowances which the largest and most profitable corporations avail of to substantially reduce their taxable profit and which results in many of these companies currently paying far less than the 12.5% headline rate on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Growing public outrage and international pressure has finally forced some moves towards having a minimum effective corporate tax rate to deal with the phenomenon of aggressive tax avoidance by some of the wealthiest corporations in the world. Although the Government resisted quite hotly, it has now agreed to an effective rate of 15%. Will it actually be an effective rate, because the 12.5%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Revenue figures to which the Minister refers, which I have in front of me, do not say what he just said. What they say for 2019 is that there was €195 billion worth of pre-tax profits, before deductions and allowances, and that €10 billion was paid on that. That is not 10% or anything like it, it is 5.6%. The reason the Minister can claim that it is 10% is because about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to pre-empt what will probably be the Minister's final comment by saying we value the jobs these companies bring to this country. They do create employment and we want those jobs here. That does not mean they cannot pay their fair share of tax. Revenue figures show the major reliefs and allowances they benefit from are intragroup transactions worth €16 billion in 2019 as a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what is recognised by the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [50787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that film producer companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief (details supplied) are regularly and on a routine basis stating to the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court that they have no employment relationship with film workers who have worked on section 481 funded productions in cases in which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered ending the Special Assignee Relief Programme in the interests of just taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider abolishing the local property tax and replace the tax with a graduated second, third, fourth and so on home tax ensuring that the family home is not subject to a property tax in view of increasing inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if the provisions of section 97A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (details supplied) are subject to a limit on the number of individual residential units that a landlord can claim for; the number of residential units for which these reliefs have been claimed that have been brought into use in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the total...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected budgeted revenue cost for the full year in 2022 arising from section 28 of the Finance Bill 2021 that inserts a new section 25A into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 with provisions relating to attribution of profits to a branch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54677/21]